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The Lakers are no longer the Lakers.
The basketball world knows it, their front office needs to own it, and the Buss children need to start acting like it if they have any chance of becoming the Lakers again.
The Lakers are no longer the Lakers, and...

Can you imagine Jerry Buss being turned down by every major free agent in the NBA? How tone-deaf are Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss? Don't they have any league intel to tell them who may be receptive to their overtures before they go all out, only to be...

Shaquille O'Neal was larger than life in Los Angeles, hugging the city so hard before eventually bouncing out of it.
He'd be seen in the Valley in the morning, grabbing breakfast on Ventura Boulevard, then Beverly Hills in the afternoon for an...

Former Los Angeles Sparks part-owner Carla Christofferson has sold her home in Hollywood Hills West for $4.5 million.
Marked by a dramatic tiled stairway and fountain, the Old Hollywood estate was home to actor and singer Russ Columbo in the early...

There's a person sitting courtside who's acutely aware of all the losing the Lakers are doing.
Lawrence Tanter was at the midcourt stripe when Kobe Bryant scored 81 points. He was at the Forum when the Lakers won the championship against Boston in...

Former Lakers great Magic Johnson again harshly criticized Jim Buss, the team's executive vice president of basketball operations.
Johnson appeared Tuesday on ESPN's "First Take" and ripped Buss for way he has run the Lakers.
"When you're...

On Tuesday, Magic Johnson lashed out against Lakers owner/executive Jim Buss.
"[He's] trying to do it himself, trying to prove to everybody that this was the right decision, that 'my dad gave me the reins,' and he's not consulting anybody,"...

On a night when they honored their late owner on his birthday, a night billed as "Remembering Dr. Jerry Buss," the injury-riddled 2014-15 edition of the Lakers played some inspired basketball Tuesday.
But all it got them was a step closer to...

The Lakers were finally winners again.
They were declared the NBA's most valuable franchise, worth $2.6 billion, according to Forbes' annual rankings released Wednesday.
The franchise jumped a whopping 93% from its previous value, strengthened by a...

Lakers executive and owner Johnny Buss will be holding court in Chatsworth after buying a lakefront estate in the area for $2.625 million.
Found within the guard-gated Monteria Estates, the home features a Colonial-style main residence, a one-bedroom...

Last April, Lakers Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Jim Buss told The Times he would step down if the franchise isn't contending within three years.
On Tuesday night, Lakers President and Governor Jeanie Buss said she'll hold him to...

Hot Property was just a kernel of an idea when Ruth Ryon proposed it in 1984 to Dick Turpin, then-editor of The Times' Real Estate section. The reporter thought there could be a column in the short stories she had started writing on notable people and...

The Lakers continued to struggle through Week 3, losing all four games to drop to 1-9 on the season.
Week 2 ended with the Lakers getting their lone victory of the season, putting an end to Charles Barkley's so-called hunger strike.
The Lak

With the Lakers opening the season slowly (1-6), partial owner Joey Buss is leaning on a number of important lessons taught to him by his late father Jerry Buss.
“My father instilled patience in me,” said Joey Buss to The Times. “That was a great take...

A Lakers opener that began slowly and soberly ended, in awfully appropriate fashion, with sadness.
Midway through the fourth quarter Tuesday, the best young Lakers hope in a season already devoid of much hope fell to the Staples Center floor with a...

Jeanie Buss had a very clear take on players unwilling to join the Lakers because they fear Kobe Bryant.
"Any free agent that would be afraid to play with Kobe Bryant is probably a loser," said Buss on Thursday to ESPN's...

Tamera Mowry, a co-hostess on “The Real” talk show, and her husband, journalist Adam Housley, have spent $1.425 million on a spot in Playa del Rey – and by spot we mean vacant lot.
Yes, that’s the high cost of real estate in the airport-close beach city,...

Until I looked up at the TV screen, I was almost convinced that Howard Dean had just purchased the Clippers. Or did Steve Ballmer simply forget to take his medications?
Bob Elsner
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Calm down, Clippers fans, you just went from an owner...

The Lakers introduced their new head coach last week, welcoming back Byron Scott to the organization on a four-year deal.
Scott, who won three titles with the "Showtime" Lakers and was a teammate of then-rookie Kobe Bryant during the 1996-97...

Magic Johnson was on hand on Monday when the Lakers welcomed his former teammate, Byron Scott, as the Lakers' next head coach.
Had Scott not taken the Cleveland Cavaliers job in 2010, he might have been hired by then-owner Jerry Buss after Phil Jackson...